क्षय रोग को लेकर विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन की ताजा रिपोर्ट बेहद चौंकाने वाली है। क्षय रोग को लेकर विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन की ताजा रिपोर्ट बेहद चौंकाने वाली है। ‘वैश्विक क्षय रोग रिपोर्ट -2021’ (ग्लोबल ट्यूबरकुलोसिस रिपोर्ट- 2021) के मुताबिक, बीते एक दशक में क्षय रोग से सबसे ज्यादा 15 लाख मौत 2020 में हुई हैं।…Continue Reading
केंद्र ने आतंकवाद और सीमा पार से अपराधों पर लगाम लगाने के मकसद से सीमा सुरक्षा बल (बीएसएफ) का अधिकार क्षेत्र बढ़ा दिया है। केंद्र ने आतंकवाद और सीमा पार से अपराधों पर लगाम लगाने के मकसद से सीमा सुरक्षा बल (बीएसएफ) का अधिकार क्षेत्र बढ़ा दिया है। बीएसएफ अब पाकिस्तान और बांग्लादेश से लगी…Continue Reading
Around 96% of NBA players vaccinated against Covid-19: NBA Commissioner Adam SilverNBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Monday that around 96 percent of players in the league have now been vaccinated against Covid-19 despite union opposition to a league-wide mandate.Speaking to reporters on the eve of the new NBA season, which tips off on Tuesday, Silver…Continue Reading
Representational image. Indian start-ups received a record funding of $10.9 billion across 347 deals in the third quarter of 2021, according to a PwC India report. This is twice the amount of funding received in Q3 of the calendar year 2020 and an approximate increase of 41% compared to the second quarter of 2021.…Continue Reading
Photo: @morganfmckay/Twitter When asked why several leaders in his party have yet to endorse Democratic primary winners such as Buffalo’s socialist candidate India Walton, the head of New York’s Democratic Party answered with an analogy that invoked an unexpected figure: David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He quickly received backlash…Continue Reading
Among India’s 1.4 billion people, there can hardly be one who isn’t now intimately familiar with every wrinkle and whisker on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face. Over the past few months, Indians have been made to regard his features as closely as they do their own. His appearance—from the shape of his eyebrows to the…Continue Reading
China’s second-largest property developer and one of the world’s most indebted companies, the Evergrande Group, faces a Saturday deadline on its 30-day grace period to pay off debts owed on a dollar bond that was due on September 23. Should the company be unable to make payment, it will default.This deadline arrives alongside recent announcements…Continue Reading
Youth homelessness in the United Kingdom has jumped 40 percent in five years, a U.K. charity said.Seyi Obakin, the chief executive of Centrepoint, the U.K.’s leading youth homelessness charity, said there are more than 120,000 homeless youths in the country. From 2016 to 2017, that number was 86,000.Obakin says Centrepoint’s helpline has received a record…Continue Reading
Colin Powell, a trailblazing political and military official who served in multiple Republican presidential administrations, died Monday from health complications. He was 84.Powell served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush and as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush and for the first few months under President…Continue Reading
A Christian missionary organization is requesting prayer after 17 of its workers were kidnapped in Haiti Saturday by gang members alongside a road.Christian Aid Ministries, which is based in Ohio, said in a statement the workers consisted of five men, seven women and five children.Sixteen are U.S. citizens. One is a Canadian citizen.The organization called…Continue Reading